From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V8 #49 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Friday, March 28 2003 Volume 08 : Number 049 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Submarines EP ["Terry Overall" ] Alloy: Submarines EP ["Paulo" ] Re: Alloy: Submarines EP [graham stuart ] RE: Alloy: Submarines EP ["Anton van Lammeren" ] Re: Alloy: Submarines EP ["Crackers" ] Re: Alloy: Submarines EP ["Keith Stansell" ] RE: Alloy: Submarines EP [Robin Thurlow ] Re: Alloy: Submarines EP ["Sally" ] RE: Alloy: Submarines EP ["Philip P Woodcock" ] Re: Alloy: Submarines EP [Robyn Moore ] Re: Alloy: Submarines EP [Lee Jackson ] Re: Alloy: Submarines EP [Russell Milliner ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:13:45 -0000 From: "Terry Overall" Subject: Re: Alloy: Submarines EP Thomas, Sounds fair to me. TEL - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Dolby Robertson" To: Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 4:28 AM Subject: Alloy: Submarines EP > > Hi all, > > I'm getting ready to put a few hundred signed and numbered copies of the > German "One Of Our Submarines" EP for sale on CD Baby. It has not been > altered musically from the version compiled and sold in Europe by Salz, but > as there's been quite a lot of interest in it over here we arranged with > Salz to press some in the US and sell them on the Web. It should be ready in > about 3 weeks. > > I need your input: after the bad experience some Alloyites had when they > placed early orders for "Forty" but didn't receive low-numbered CDs, I want > to make sure you have a good shot at it this time. So here's what I propose, > tell me what you think: the moment the CD goes up for sale on CDBaby, I will > notify this List, which goes out to less than 100 people. I will not > publicize it in any other way for 3 days. During that time, if you place an > order at CDBaby you're quite likely to get a low-numbered (<100?) CD. I will > give CDBaby clear instructions that they need to allocate the CDs on a first > come, first served basis (none of us thought of that last time!) Of course, > I can't prevent others who happen to be browsing the site during those days > from buying one ahead of you. Then, after 3 days, we'll link to it from > thomasdolby.com, email others on the CDBaby mailing list, post it on a few > newsgroups etc. > > Is this a fair system? > > TMDR ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:20:20 -0300 From: "Paulo" Subject: Alloy: Submarines EP Yes Thomas! Good news I tried to get mine from 2 CD stores in Germany but didn't receive it... (my credicard account was not debited). They said they were run out of stock and keep it in back order.. but it's already been a long time. It will be much better and easier to buy it from CD baby Thank you so much ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 07:25:47 -0500 From: graham stuart Subject: Re: Alloy: Submarines EP > Awesome news Mr. Dolby! Thanks Graham > Hi all, > > I'm getting ready to put a few hundred signed and numbered copies of the > German "One Of Our Submarines" EP for sale on CD Baby. It has not been > altered musically from the version compiled and sold in Europe by Salz, but > as there's been quite a lot of interest in it over here we arranged with > Salz to press some in the US and sell them on the Web. It should be ready in > about 3 weeks. > > I need your input: after the bad experience some Alloyites had when they > placed early orders for "Forty" but didn't receive low-numbered CDs, I want > to make sure you have a good shot at it this time. So here's what I propose, > tell me what you think: the moment the CD goes up for sale on CDBaby, I will > notify this List, which goes out to less than 100 people. I will not > publicize it in any other way for 3 days. During that time, if you place an > order at CDBaby you're quite likely to get a low-numbered (<100?) CD. I will > give CDBaby clear instructions that they need to allocate the CDs on a first > come, first served basis (none of us thought of that last time!) Of course, > I can't prevent others who happen to be browsing the site during those days > from buying one ahead of you. Then, after 3 days, we'll link to it from > thomasdolby.com, email others on the CDBaby mailing list, post it on a few > newsgroups etc. > > Is this a fair system? > > TMDR ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:46:28 +0100 From: "Anton van Lammeren" Subject: RE: Alloy: Submarines EP Hi all, Being new to this list I'm amazed to find a message of The Man Himself directly. Very nice! After years I'm having a little revival of the music of my youth. (I just got a broadband internet connection, and with this MP3-sharing you can wander through so many tunes of your youth... Having grown up in the 70-ties, just after The Beatles, with David Bowie, The Osmonds, Slade, Mud, Alice Cooper and so on, actually my favourite band became, was, and still is, Roxy Music.. They released 'Love is the Drug' when I was 14 ((Thomas 16 then), and in the years after I subsequently learnt their earlier work. Most of the bands I like afterwards, are somehow related to them and most notably Brian Eno, who went on to play and produce a truly brilliant variety bunch of music. It was 'only logical' to read just this week that Thomas was really impressed by him. In my 20-ties I was into Talking Heads, though they don't appeal to me now that much. Nevertheless: "Remain in Light" was very nice to hear recently. And then there was this 'solo artist' (?) Thomas Dolby. With his Science and videos to go with. Brilliant again! Being a physicist by profession, but a romantic too, I was mesmerized by his music. So 'techies' can create music too! Now thinking back: perhaps I should have given it a try too. But I didn't, and tried to produce 'factory goods' as an engineer. Found this wonderful woman to live with in Amsterdam. Played squash, learned scuba diving. Met many friends. Still have my parents to visit and so on. There's just too much to do in personal life. How do people manage to have 'careers'? Life went on, and I most excruciatingly broke up with this woman. But recuperated somehow, and although still tormented with painful memories, especially when listening to music from those days, I'm now the happy and very proud father of 2 young sons and a third to come this summer. During all this I got burgled twice with all or most of my cd's stolen... But I still have the vinyls, and the 'Close but no cigar'-single. (Part one of a two CD-set, which is the other?). This week I ordered 'Forty' from CDbaby and The Flat Earth, AAMB and H&A are also coming from Amazon. My first on-line CD orders. So I'll be 'back in business' soon, with all the major albums back in possession. (Ah! Mere materialistic thinking...) It was very nice to read 'Mr. Dolby Remembers'; a pity that it seems to stop with no end. Any chance of continuing the series in the near future? Actually there is too much to find on The Web (Feel like this child in a huge candy store) so I could fill the rest of my days wandering through it... Still have to go though the links of you 'Alloys'... Well, so much for 'an introduction' , hope to read more of TMDR. And further: has anyone of you suggestions of how to acquire more of TMDR? What's good, what's bad? I would like to hear more of 'I Love You, Goodbye'. (There is this New Orleans version?) And of the moody things like 'The Ascent of Man'. Love, Anton. with some Old Roxy Follie: http://www.avl.dds.nl > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Dolby Robertson > Sent: donderdag 27 maart 2003 5:28 > To: alloy@smoe.org > Subject: Alloy: Submarines EP > > Hi all, > > I'm getting ready to put a few hundred signed and numbered > copies of the German "One Of Our Submarines" EP ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:43:09 -0500 From: "Crackers" Subject: Re: Alloy: Submarines EP - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Dolby Robertson" > I need your input: after the bad experience some Alloyites had when they > placed early orders for "Forty" but didn't receive low-numbered CDs, I want > to make sure you have a good shot at it this time. So here's what I propose, > tell me what you think: the moment the CD goes up for sale on CDBaby, I will > notify this List, which goes out to less than 100 people. You can add me to the list if you decide to do this. Crackers Ghastly's Ghastly Comic http://ghastly.keenspace.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:17:30 -0700 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Re: Alloy: Submarines EP I'm sure this has been discussed before, but my brain is like a ... well, you know. So, what are the details of this Submarines EP? How does it differ than versions in the past and what other things are on it - besides a cool autograph (:-) - -Keith - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Dolby Robertson" To: Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 9:28 PM Subject: Alloy: Submarines EP > > Hi all, > > I'm getting ready to put a few hundred signed and numbered copies of the > German "One Of Our Submarines" EP for sale on CD Baby. It has not been > altered musically from the version compiled and sold in Europe by Salz, but > as there's been quite a lot of interest in it over here we arranged with > Salz to press some in the US and sell them on the Web. It should be ready in > about 3 weeks. > > I need your input: after the bad experience some Alloyites had when they > placed early orders for "Forty" but didn't receive low-numbered CDs, I want > to make sure you have a good shot at it this time. So here's what I propose, > tell me what you think: the moment the CD goes up for sale on CDBaby, I will > notify this List, which goes out to less than 100 people. I will not > publicize it in any other way for 3 days. During that time, if you place an > order at CDBaby you're quite likely to get a low-numbered (<100?) CD. I will > give CDBaby clear instructions that they need to allocate the CDs on a first > come, first served basis (none of us thought of that last time!) Of course, > I can't prevent others who happen to be browsing the site during those days > from buying one ahead of you. Then, after 3 days, we'll link to it from > thomasdolby.com, email others on the CDBaby mailing list, post it on a few > newsgroups etc. > > Is this a fair system? > > TMDR ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:22:41 -0800 (PST) From: Robin Thurlow Subject: RE: Alloy: Submarines EP Dear Anton, thanks for joining us & for introducing yourself with so many stories from your past. I always enjoy hearing people's backgrounds & how they came to be introduced to Thomas Dolby's music. As for the prospect of a new CD I couldn't be more thrilled. The system for distributing low-numbered CDs in order sounds like it would work out very well. I have an irrelevant question about the # of 'burns' from a master onto CD. Are each of the prints identical to one another, or are there small differences in some aspects of the sound? are low numbered copies more tinny while high nombers more woofy? or anything of the sort? In other words, why a low number rather than a middle or high number? I'd love ANY number. It might be nice to have the option of requesting copies that Thomas had made a little sketch on. You know he must want to do a line drawing of his cat now and then to alleviate the tedium of signing all those copies.. I'm very much looking forward to news of the CDs release. Thank you so much for letting us know the good news, Thomas! xx ~r Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 18:42:07 -0800 From: "Sally" Subject: Re: Alloy: Submarines EP Thomas, thanks very much! I've been wanting to get hold of the cd, and a signed copy would be lovely. Early warning for Alloy people would be great, thank you. Sally ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 19:29:56 -0000 From: "Philip P Woodcock" Subject: RE: Alloy: Submarines EP Totally fair, I was one of the victims last time of a high number (partly my fault too i must add) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-alloy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-alloy@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Thomas Dolby Robertson Sent: 27 March 2003 04:28 To: alloy@smoe.org Subject: Alloy: Submarines EP Hi all, I'm getting ready to put a few hundred signed and numbered copies of the German "One Of Our Submarines" EP for sale on CD Baby. It has not been altered musically from the version compiled and sold in Europe by Salz, but as there's been quite a lot of interest in it over here we arranged with Salz to press some in the US and sell them on the Web. It should be ready in about 3 weeks. I need your input: after the bad experience some Alloyites had when they placed early orders for "Forty" but didn't receive low-numbered CDs, I want to make sure you have a good shot at it this time. So here's what I propose, tell me what you think: the moment the CD goes up for sale on CDBaby, I will notify this List, which goes out to less than 100 people. I will not publicize it in any other way for 3 days. During that time, if you place an order at CDBaby you're quite likely to get a low-numbered (<100?) CD. I will give CDBaby clear instructions that they need to allocate the CDs on a first come, first served basis (none of us thought of that last time!) Of course, I can't prevent others who happen to be browsing the site during those days from buying one ahead of you. Then, after 3 days, we'll link to it from thomasdolby.com, email others on the CDBaby mailing list, post it on a few newsgroups etc. Is this a fair system? TMDR - --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.465 / Virus Database: 263 - Release Date: 25/03/2003 - --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.465 / Virus Database: 263 - Release Date: 25/03/2003 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 15:33:03 -0800 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: Submarines EP At 08:28 PM 3/26/03, you appeared to say: >Is this a fair system? It certainly sounds fair and reasonable to me. Thanks again for thinking of us. :) Robyn M > @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.wiccans.net/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 18:06:39 -0600 From: Lee Jackson Subject: Re: Alloy: Submarines EP On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:28:02 -0800, you wrote: >...the moment the CD goes up for sale on CDBaby, I will notify this List, which goes out to less than 100 people. Yes, please. :-) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 19:22:07 -0500 From: Russell Milliner Subject: Re: Alloy: Submarines EP It sounds pretty unanimous that this is fair and should work. I may even start to have my alloy email copied to my phone! Also to Anton, welcome to the list. As for TMDR stuff, I have found eBay and/or GEMM (www.gemm.com) to be the best places to aquire TMDR merchandise. You'll find all of the common CD singles, LPs 12" & 45s, and VHS & laserdiscs. You will also occasionally find some true gems like live BBC recordings. - -Russell Milliner http://www.tmdrfan.com/ Thomas Dolby Robertson wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm getting ready to put a few hundred signed and numbered copies of the >German "One Of Our Submarines" EP for sale on CD Baby. It has not been >altered musically from the version compiled and sold in Europe by Salz, but >as there's been quite a lot of interest in it over here we arranged with >Salz to press some in the US and sell them on the Web. It should be ready in >about 3 weeks. > >I need your input: after the bad experience some Alloyites had when they >placed early orders for "Forty" but didn't receive low-numbered CDs, I want >to make sure you have a good shot at it this time. So here's what I propose, >tell me what you think: the moment the CD goes up for sale on CDBaby, I will >notify this List, which goes out to less than 100 people. I will not >publicize it in any other way for 3 days. During that time, if you place an >order at CDBaby you're quite likely to get a low-numbered (<100?) CD. I will >give CDBaby clear instructions that they need to allocate the CDs on a first >come, first served basis (none of us thought of that last time!) Of course, >I can't prevent others who happen to be browsing the site during those days >from buying one ahead of you. Then, after 3 days, we'll link to it from >thomasdolby.com, email others on the CDBaby mailing list, post it on a few >newsgroups etc. > >Is this a fair system? > >TMDR ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V8 #49 **************************